Legal and Law
Information about legal issues and law in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1862-10-04, Richmond Dispatch; more on Dr. Rucker’s case – back to Castle Thunder
1862-10-23, Richmond Dispatch; negro convicted of stealing bushel of flour from Camp Winder bakery
1862-11-20, Richmond Dispatch; Ira Parker, Castle Thunder deserter, arraigned for theft. Gets 3 years
1862-12-09, Richmond Dispatch; escaped Libby prisoner arrested for something else & returned to Libby; Kile Norton, “a South Carolina darkey” employed at Castle Thunder
1862-12-11, Richmond Dispatch; Mayor’s Court: as usual, many slave items; Mike, negro employed at Chimborazo, gets 25 lashes (drunk, stealing)
1862-12-17, Richmond Dispatch; Habeas Corpus case for 3 men confined in Castle Lightning
1862-12-20, Richmond Dispatch; Patrick Golding of Richmond into Castle Thunder for disloyalty
1863-01-10, Richmond Dispatch; Slave who killed infant executed just east of Alms House. City Battalion detachment present
1863-01-12, National Archives; Sallie Tompkins requests pay due her late husband Edmund T. Tompkins
1863-01-16, Richmond Dispatch; Mayor’s Court: drunk soldier smashes up City Railway car, slave of Wm. Lumpkin “ordered a thrashing” for assaulting a white person; General Winder’s office now on Main St., man who shot the little boy near the basin found

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